Curriculum Vitæ
Education
- Ph.D. in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science, University of Arizona, In progress.
- M.Sc. (5-year integrated) in Mathematics, National Institute of Science Education and Research (Homi Bhabha National Institute), 2019.
Work experience
- August 2024 - May 2025: Graduate Associate, Teaching - Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson
- Instructor of Record for Calculus I (Math 122B).
- July 2024: Member - Summer Research in Mathematics, Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute, Berkeley
- Supported by the National Science Foundation grant DMS-1928930.
- May - August 2024: Research Intern - Cryptography team, Special Projects Group, Microsoft Research Lab, Redmond
- August 2023 - May 2024: Graduate Assistant II, Teaching - Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson
- Instructor of Record for Calculus I (Math 122B) supervised by Donna Krawczyk (Fall 2023) and Janice Takagi (Spring 2024).
- August 2022 - May 2023: Graduate Assistant II, Teaching - Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson
- Instructor of Record for Precalculus (Math 120R) supervised by Sarah Andrews (Fall 2022) and Janice Takagi (Spring 2023).
- Group Project Mentor for Mathematical Modeling (Math 485) supervised by Joceline Lega (Spring 2023).
- August 2021 - May 2022: Graduate Assistant I, Teaching - Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson
- Instructor of Record for Precalculus (Math 120R) supervised by Janice Takagi (Fall 2021) and Donna Krawczyk (Spring 2022).
- July - August 2021: Graduate Assistant I, Teaching - Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson
- Teaching Assistant for College Algebra (Math 112) supervised by Terry Caldwell (Summer 2021).
- August 2020 - May 2021: Graduate Assistant I, Teaching - Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson
- Teaching Assistant for College Algebra (Math 112) supervised by Michael Rossetti (Fall 2020 and Spring 2021).
- Teaching Assistant for Graduate Algebra II (Math 511B) supervised by Bryden Cais (Spring 2021).
- August 2019 - July 2020: Graduate Assistant I, Teaching - Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson
- Teaching Assistant for College Algebra (Math 112) supervised by Mitchell Wilson (Fall 2019) and Heonmi Kim (Spring 2020).
- June 2018: Visiting Student - School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
- December 2017: Winter Intern - Kerala School of Mathematics, KSCSTE, Kozhikode
- June - July 2017: Visiting Student - Mathematics Research Group, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
- December 2016: Visiting Student - Mathematics Section, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
- June - July 2016: Summer Intern - Theoretical Statistics and Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre
- Reading project on Number Fields supervised by Ramesh Sreekantan.
- December 2015: Visiting Student - Mathematics Section, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad
- July 2015: Summer Intern - School of Liberal Studies, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi, New Delhi
- May 2015: Summer Intern - Department of Mathematics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune
Awards and Scholarships
- Award for Excellence in Scholarship - College of Science, University of Arizona (April 16, 2024)
- GPSC Travel Grant - Graduate and Professional Student Council, University of Arizona (June 09, 2023) ~ USD 1500
- Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award - Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona (May 24, 2023)
- James R. Clay Graduate Travel Award - Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona (April 19, 2023) ~ USD 700
- Best M.Sc. Thesis Award in Mathematics - National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar (June 10, 2019).
- Junior Research Fellowship and Eligibility for Lectureship (Mathematical Sciences) - Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi (Selected through the joint CSIR-UGC NET held on December 16, 2018) ~ All India Rank 18
- Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Scholarship for Higher Education - Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (July 22, 2014 - May 20, 2019) ~ INR 380,000
Conferences and Workshops
- Abelian Varieties, Southwest Center for Arithmetic Geometry (Arizona Winter School 2024), Tucson (March 02-06, 2024)
- Isogeny Graphs in Cryptography, BIRS/ICMS@Bristol (BIRS 5-Day Workshop/ICMS satellite event), Online participation (Aug 21 - 25, 2023)
- Foundations and Frontiers of Probabilistic Proofs, ETH Zurich (SLMath SGS 2023), Zurich (Jul 17 - 28, 2023)
- Number Theory and Applications, Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City (SEAMS school), Ho Chi Minh City (Jun 12 - 22, 2023)
- Applied Cryptography, Chulalongkorn University (IACR School), Bangkok (Jan 30 - Feb 03, 2023)
- Data Science Boot Camp, The Erdős Institute, Online event attended using Slack and Zoom (Aug 29 - Dec 09, 2022)
- Number Theory Informed by Computation, Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI GSS 2022), Park City (Jul 17 - Aug 06, 2022)
- Global Quantum Computing & Entrepreneurship Program, Womanium, Washington DC, Online event attended using Zoom, Discord and Canvas (Jul 10 - Aug 26, 2022)
- Imagining a Better Online World: Exploring the Decentralized Web, a series of 6 workshops about the Decentralized Web organized by METRO, Internet Archive, DWeb, and Library Futures, Online event attended using Zoom (on the last Thursdays from Jan to Jun 2022)
- Big Data in Pure Mathematics, Boston University, Online event attended using Zoom and Zulip (May 21 - 22, 2022).
- PQNet: Post-Quantum Networks Workshop (Part 2), Cloudflare Research affiliated event with the Real World Crypto Symposium 2022 at Amsterdam, attended virtually using Zoom and Slack (Apr 19 - 20, 2022)
- PQNet: Post-Quantum Networks Workshop (Part 1), Cloudflare Research satellite event with the Isogeny-based cryptography school at University of Bristol, Online event attended using Zoom, Zulip and wonder.me (Sep 27 - 30, 2021)
- Sage/Oscar Days for Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry, Institute for Computational & Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM, Brown University), Online event attended using Zoom, Slack and Gather.town (Feb 15 - 19, 2021)
- International Conference on Class Groups of Number Fields and Related Topics, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad (Sept 04 - 07, 2017)
- USERC Undergraduate Summer Workshop, Center for Excellence in Mathematical Sciences (Kumaon University), Almora (Jun 22 - Jul 04, 2015)
- 30th Annual Conference of Ramanujan Mathematical Society, IISER Mohali (RMS), Mohali (May 15 - 17, 2015)
- Some High Points of Undergraduate Mathematics Education, IISER Mohali (RMS), Mohali (May 14, 2015)
- National Science Camp (Vijyoshi 2014), Science City Auditorium (KVPY-INSPIRE-IISER Kolkata), Kolkata (Nov 10 - 12, 2014)
Recreational Mathematics Explorations
- Wrote and directed a 45-minute magic show called Math-O-Trick for the Open Day at NISER on April 08, 2017. It consisted of 11 mathematical card tricks performed by 7 students including me (Bachet 1, Bachet 2, Bachet 3).
- MathematiX Club, NISER - Bhubaneswar: Organized a total of 80 undergraduate seminars from Spring 2015 to Spring 2019 (57 SUMS, 12 SRS, 9 MathToys, and 2 OpenDay), and 8 of these were delivered by me (3 SUMS, 2 SRS, 1 MathToys, and 2 OpenDay). Most of the reading material that I gave my juniors to prepare for the SUMS was from the following book series: “MIR Little Mathematics Library”, “MAA Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library” and “AMS Mathematical World”.
- Cross Diagonal Cover Problem, a puzzle I posed in the form of blog posts on my wordpress blog Gaurish4Math during April-May 2016 (This puzzle was solved by Matthew Scroggs in July 2016).
- Pulsating Checkpoint Sequence (A264962), The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, November 2015. (I discovered this sequence while attempting to solve a puzzle posed by Pradeep Mutalik in “Quanta Magazine” in November 2015).
